Harry Freakstorm:The United States enjoyed a resurgence in manufacturing. In 2017, President Springsteen installed the first U S television set to be manufactured since the 1980s in to the dashboard of Air Force One.

...unfortunately, it was a low-definition tube TV and thus unable to receive anything.

Wow, this actually sounds serious. China's naval capacity is, what, a hundred or so ex-Soviet diesel warships, and a couple of nuclear submarines? So those will be up against Japan's navy - which consists of... wait... isn't Japan's navy the United States Pacific Fleet?

fta: "... the ships might have been trying to avoid an approaching typhoon."

Training exercise is done boys let's go home. Hey Larry the normal way has a typhoon in the way, maybe we should go around the other side of the island. Yeah George good idea but that way is near a disputed area. Yeah Larry you're right, but we can still avoid it by 125 miles. There's no way anybody would care about that right? Not even Fox News could make something up stupid there could they? You're right George, let's just avoid the typhoon and get home.